Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-04

mons on the origin of the Christian Church.
which are being delivered by the pastor,
Rev. N. L. Atwood. The reverend gentle
man took for his text the following:
THE fourth beast shall be the fourth King
dom upon earth which shall be diverse from
an Kingdoms, and shall drown the whole earth,
and shall tread il Town and break II IN pieces
And the ten horns out OF this hlnguom aTe Ien
Kings that shall arise, and anotner snall Ise
after them, and he shall be diverse npInthe M,
and he shall subdue these Kings. And ne snail
speak great words against the Most High, ana
think to change times and laws; ana they snaL,
be given into his hand until u time, times anu
the dividing of time. But the Judgment shallslt
and they shall take away his dominion, TO con
SUM and To destroy il unto the end. -Dan' VII:
23-26.
THE SERMON.
The language of the prophecies OF Dan
iel,n said Mr.. Atwood, las OF the other
prophecies of the Old Testament, and also
the language of the Apocalypse in the
New, is highly 6~guratiye. In both the
word beast is. a symbol Of a government,
and the word horn a symbol OF a power.
It also, sometimes, is used for government,
but oftener signifies a division in a gov
eminent, or a traction Of a broken govern
ment. King and kingdom are used In
terchangably, and are applied to any power
of government. Waters and seas are
symbols OF peoples and multltudes and
tongues and nations So, when Danlel
saw -four great beasts arise out OF the sea,
diverse. one from another it signifies that
he saw four great governments arise among
the nations.
'STbese same four governments sym
bolized in the image that Nebuchadnezzar
saw in his dream, of which Daniel gives
the description and Interpretation IN the
second chapter. The first of these was
Babylon, represented by the golden head
of the image and by the first. beast IN
Daniels vision. This was succeeded by
the double kingdom of Media and Persia,
represented by the breast and arms OF the
image, and by the second beast Ia the
vision. 1t is the ram with two horns IN
Dan. Sth and was succeeded by the third
kingdom in the image, and the third beast
in the vision, and was symbolized by the
goat with one horn in Dan. 9Th.
THIS ONE HORN WAS BROKEN
and four horns came up in the place OF 1t,
representing the four governments into
which the kingdom of Alexander was d.
yided. Rome succeeded these three king
doms, and is represented by the legs OF
iron and feet and toes of iron and clay In
the image, aud by the Beast dreadful
and terrible, and strong exceedingly IN
the vision. The ten toes Of the image
represent the ten fragments into which
the Roman Empire was broken aud when
are symbolized by the ten horns OF the
beast in the vision.
1.-The dream terminated with the setting
up of the Kingdom of the God Of Heaven,
which should never be destroyed, and
which broke in pieces and consumed all
these kingdoms, and it shall stand for
ever
1.-The vision of Daniel does not exhibit this
fifth kingdom, but exhibits the ten powers
or governments into which the Roman
Empire was broken by the setting up OF
the Kingdom of God and which were rep
resented by the ten horns OF the beast.
'Three of these ten horns were uprooted
by a little horn which came up among
them. | propose to show this evening
that this little horn and the Romish
Church are identical. If this church has
done the things the little horn was to do,
and if these things have been done by no
other power, then the Church and the Lit
tie Horn are
ONE AND THE SANE.
The prophet says: The ten horns are ten
Kings that shall arise, and another shall
arise after them, and be shall he diverse
from the first, and he shall snbdue three
Kings The advent of the Pope was
after the breaking up of the Empire into
ten parts, and at his ~instigation the three
Kingdoms of the Vandals, the O~strOgoths
and the Lombards were plucked up by
the roots the first by the army Of the
Eastern Emperor Justiniau, and the last
by Pepin, King Of France. 1t was 'di-
verse irGn the other horns in that they
were all purely secular kingdoms; while
the Papacy was both secular ana ~eccleSi-
astical. In the same year that Justinian
sent his army against the Vandal kingdom
he declared the Bishop of Rome TO be
The head OF all tue holy churches
The little horn had Eyes like the eyes
of a man. Eyes here, srs emblems OF
craftiness, sagacity, farsightedness, and
cunning. In these particulars no earthly
powers can he compared with the Romish
Church.
The Month Speakinggre at things fifty
represents
THE INDUSTRIOUS ARROGANCE
of its pretensions, which were sufficiently
set forth in the discourse a week ago. His
look is more stout than his fellows But
it is the look only. Intrinsically it wa al
way2 2 weak and feeble power. But by
the use o. Us ewes and its Mouth
speaking great things, il Vas succeeded in
combining the other powers Of Europe tOf
the accomplishment of it's purposes. BY
these means it has been able to keep the
blood of these nations in almost unceasing
TOW during the whole period of its exist
enat.
"'rhe SANE G0rG made wal with the
Saints and prevailed against tHeBt.:
mo one characteristic of the hOmlsh
Church so perfectly identifies it with the
little horn az this one. Its wars against
the professors of Christianity have been
persistent, relentless, cruel, ineXcusable
n u0ceaSiDk. ts + tkt .tiouS u JULES
tians are it's great distinguishing c.-arac'
teristics." The details of its manifestations
of this peculiarly
DENILlSH SPIRIT
the speaLe9 said he would reserve for a
future DISCOURSE.
Its power was TO continue Tor a time.
times and tbs dividing of time" This was
shown bg comparison with other prophe-
cies, to cover a ReriGd Of twelve hundred
and sixty years. Prom the overthrow of
the Vandai Kingdom in 4. d. 5SS till the
power to make wal against the saints was
taken away from the Church by Napoleon
in 1893 was exactly 1880 years. 1t has
fulfilled all the predictions of the prophecy
sxcert those relating to the terrible de-
struction ,oIot3l9 in the Goth verse, and
in the conclusion Ct t.e 18th chapter of
Revelations.
An enjoyable time may be had at the
concert a Frank Healy's Garden, this
evening. Music by Mayer.